The Smell of Ink/Lukten av Trykksverte

It's Friday, and thus it's perhaps time for another Let's Talk Bookish post courtesy of  Book Nook Bits  and  Dinipanda Reads , and today's topic is reading relatability. Here's the further prompts for today. Real life can be a lot. Do you enjoy reading books with high relatability to your past or present situation (i.e. with relatable characters, situations they face, or places they visit) or do you read purely to escape reality? Do you seek out a certain type of read, depending on your head space or mood? For me, it very much depends on what I'm in the mood for. While sometimes I'm in search of something a tad bit relatable, such as when I read a couple of books set in London before I took a trip there back in November 2023, I also quite a lot of times read to escape reality of sorts. That said, I do sometimes need something lighter if I'm in a dark/bad mood, just to try to get out of the bad space, even just temporarily.

It's Tuesday and perhaps it's time for another Top Ten Tuesday post courtesy of  That Artsy Reader Girl  and the theme of the week is books you'd be a fool not to read. As I mainly focus on horror and paranormal, I decided writing a list of horror novels you'd be a fool not to read. Here's my ten spooky picks. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty Description from Goodreads Georgetown, Washington D.C. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficulties' with her usually sweet-natured eleven-year-old daughter Regan. The child becomes afflicted by spasms, convulsions and unsettling amnesiac episodes; these abruptly worsen into violent fits of appalling foul-mouthed curses, accompanied by physical mutation. Medical science is baffled by Regan's plight and, in her increasing despair, Chris turns to troubled priest and psychiatrist Damien Karras, who immediately recognises something profoundly malevolent in Regan's distorted fetur...